Philosophy of Peace and Healing: The Healers of Cha'reth

Philosophy of Peace and Healing: The Healers of Cha'reth

by Rika Vandor, Priestess and Healer of Cha'reth

The Healers of Cha'reth are a group of clerics and worshippers of Cha'reth that are dedicated to Cha'reth's main tenets of peace and healing. They are the activists of the church, are often called upon as negotiators, and facilitators of peace, and researchers and healers in times when individuals or nations are in need of Cha'reth's healing Touch.

The atmosphere of the Healers is one of family, and they talk more often then they fight. There is no formal hierarchy in the Healers, and all worshippers of Cha'reth are welcome, regardless if they are more interested in peace (whether personal, spiritual peace, or peace between nations and the politics thereof) or in healing and research into the disease and ills of the body and their cures.

However, there are times when talk and healing are not appropriate to the pursuit of peace, and the assurance of life-and that is when dealing with those entities who, by their very nature, are anathema to life, health, peace, happiness or joy. Unlife, demons and devils are abhorrent to Cha'reth, and therefore the Healers, and indeed all members of His Church, work (and sometimes fight) to remove these beings from the face of Avlis whenever they are found.

The Healers of Cha'reth work to spread the philosophy of Cha'reth across the face of Avlis. To that end, they have funded hospitals, cured plagues, facilitated treaties, and encouraged activities that benefit all the peoples of Avlis. But whatever it is that they do, and wherever the Healers venture, they follow the same major principles of their faith.

No living, sentient being is irredeemable, or should be hated. Remember, brethren, it is always best to apply the least force needed, and offer the least violence possible-we do not kill or harm those who do not offer death or injury. Sometimes violence cannot be avoided, and in those cases we must always keep compassion, mercy and pity in mind. Above all offer caring, compassion and faith. For those who follow the ways of Peace should care for those who need aid, comfort and solace, and stop the spread of evil that destroys or perverts for the sake of destruction. For those who are evil cannot build, they can only tear down. They destroy beauty because they cannot stand its presence. Those who Heal [i]create[/i] beauty; they repair that which is broken, or ill, and in that way restore peace and health.

Cha'reth believed that great events, and great works can flow from the actions of a single individual-and so, one must constantly ask oneself-"How can my actions foster peace and healing?" Brethren, there is no "one true way." Cha'reth encourages individual choice, and encourages those choices to foster the peace and well-being of others. Do not impose upon others what you would not choose for yourself.

To end this work, I leave you with a speech that Cha'reth is said to have given when mortal...

"There is discrimination in this world, and slavery and slaughter and starvation. Governments repress their people; and millions are trapped in poverty while the nation grows rich; and wealth is lavished on armaments everywhere. These are differing evils, but they are common works. They reflect the imperfection of human justice, the inadequacy of human compassion, our lack of sensibility toward the sufferings of our fellows.

But we can perhaps remember--even if only for a time--that those who live with us are our brothers; that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek--as we do--nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment there is to be found. Surely this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something....

Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men. And surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again... Each time of us stands up for an ideal....or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope......building a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Some believe there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills. Yet I believe that many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, can flow from the work of a single person. So we must strive, each of us, to share our love, be good to one another, and help one another, and therefore, help us all."

May Cha'reth bless you with peace, health, love and joy, brethren, all the days of your lives.